Major League Baseball and Apple reached a multiyear deal to place a version of the company’s iPad in dugouts.

Teams will have access to iPad Pros — the higher-end version of Apple’s tablet lineup — for both analytics and replays, MLB announced Wednesday. The deal comes as MLB lifts its ban of smartphones, tablets and laptops in the dugout.

Most notably, the iPads will feature a newly developed centralized advance scouting, analytics and video app — MLB Dugout.

Usage of the iPad Pros will be optional.

The financial terms of the deal were not released. Microsoft agreed to spend about $400 million as part of a deal with the NFL to put its Surface tablet on the sidelines, although that also gave Microsoft the exclusive right to create digital interactive content.

A 9.7-inch version of the iPad Pro is slated to be released Friday. The 12.9-inch version launched in November. Both use a stylus, called the “Pencil.”

Said MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred in a statement: "Our collaboration with Apple on the use of iPad Pro in dugouts and bullpens is part of our ongoing effort to introduce extraordinary technology into our game. We are pleased that Apple’s groundbreaking products, which have already improved the access that fans have to our sport, will now inform the decisions that make our games interesting and exciting throughout the year.”

The integration comes after MLB built a private network infrastructure in clubhouses in all 30 major league parks; the devices will have access to scouting reports and video, but dugout and bullpen devices will not have Internet connectivity or stream live video.

"It’s all proprietary information with your scouting reports," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle. "This is not anything you go on the Internet and (find). This is basically the information you have anyway; mostly it’s in books, now it’s going to be transferable to iPads. We’re streamlining things a little bit."

Teams were originally offered this access via a pilot program developed during the final two weeks of the 2015 regular season and the postseason.

Padres manager Andy Green was among those who used the iPad in September.

"We put our spray charts on them, but we weren’t allowed any video last year," Green said. "We are allowed certain types of video this year.

"We obviously can’t watch live game action feed from the dugout. But we can watch historic video of guys pitching so guys can get a look in the dugout.

"It depends on how quickly you can navigate the system. Last year it was very cumbersome and you couldn’t get to charts quick enough so you had more value with a notebook. Supposedly there has been a lot of progress made in making it much more user friendly and hopefully the technology helps us."

Will it change Green's approach?

"I would say we will have both in the beginning until we get very comfortable using the technology that’s provided," Green said. "We will have the books as a backup."

Hurdle might be a bit less hands-on with the new technology.

"If you’re good with your fingers, you’ve got some IT skills, maybe you can take the next step and do a little bit of work with that," Hurdle said. "I won’t be using one. That’s why I have coaches, so they can use them and give me the information."